so the name we use here is the one we interduce ourselfs as on the playa?

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

I actually didn't make up or choose mine.Whenever I used to call my friend Phl that lived a few miles away, his wife usually answered. I used to just say "Goddammit... " and she'd say "What the hell!". It became the standard script. She'd yell across the house "Phil, it's 'goddammit' on the phone!"Then I built a boat... when you are driving a boat, everyone calls you "Captain". And so it came to be.

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tatonka has been my online name since 2001 , but my real name is tatooed on my back , so Ill prob just use that.

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

tatonka wrote:so the name we use here is the one we interduce ourselfs as on the playa?

That's what I do. But you can call yourself whatever you want. If you go to the ePlaya Meet & Greet it'll be good to introduce yourself by your ePlaya name if you want to be recognized, but no one can make you do it.

The classic method for acquiring a playa name is for someone else to name you during something memorable, but there's no reason you can't choose one, or use one you already use.

I'm going to introduce myself at least once this year by Junglesmack's Grandma's cat's name:

Honey Precious Baby DAMMIT.

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If you're in a camp, and your camp communicates via facebook, your playa name will very likely be whatever name that is on your facebook profile, which is most likely to be your default world name - or given name. I don't really care to get into some debate about what is default, etc.

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As others have said, use what you like. Some people go by their default/given name. Others are given nicknames by campmates or friends either on or off the playa, and still others pick their own. Whatever works for you and makes you happy, though of course sometimes you go out there with an idea of what you'll be called only to find some completely other thing happens. The playa's funny like that

I was called Dirk Mahogany, Third Eye for a while back in the 70's...hated it. (long story).

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Captain Goddammit wrote:I actually didn't make up or choose mine.Whenever I used to call my friend Phl that lived a few miles away, his wife usually answered. I used to just say "Goddammit... " and she'd say "What the hell!". It became the standard script. She'd yell across the house "Phil, it's 'goddammit' on the phone!"Then I built a boat... when you are driving a boat, everyone calls you "Captain". And so it came to be.

Seems to me it would be hard to say all the time.Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.

171/348 wrote:Seems to me it would be hard to say all the time.Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.

Could also go with "Almost Half"

So, what is the 171/348 stand for?

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